The total donations over ₹20,000 declared by the national parties for the past fiscal year amounted to ₹780.77 cr from 7,141 donations as per details submitted by the parties to Election Commission of India
BJP receives ₹548,808 crores from Corporates, Congress ₹54,567 crore
The BJP received ₹ 614.6 crores through donations, followed by the Congress which received ₹ 95.4 crores last year, a report by poll watchdog Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) revealed on Tuesday.
The total donations, over ₹20,000, declared by the national parties for the past financial year, amounted to ₹780.77 crore from 7,141 donations.
A total of ₹ 614,626 crores from 4,957 donations was declared by BJP, followed by ₹ 95.45 crores from 1,255 donations declared by the Indian National Congress.
The donations reported by BJP are more than three times the total reported for the same period by the Indian National Congress (INC), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), CPI, CPM, National People’s Party and All India Trinamool Congress,” said the report.
For the 16th consecutive year, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) stated that it had not received any donations exceeding ₹20,000.
The ADR report found that the total donations from the national parties increased by ₹187,026 crores during the financial year 2021-2022, an increase of 31.50 percent from the previous financial year 2020-21.
Donations to BJP have increased from ₹477,545 crores to ₹614,626 crore which is an increase of 28.71 percent while Congress donations have increased from ₹74,524 crores in FY 2020-21 to ₹95,459 crores. Meanwhile, CPM and the National People’s Party have announced a decline in donations.
According to the ADR report, 2551 donations to the national parties were made by companies/business sectors amounting to ₹625,883 crores (80.1619% of the total donations) while 4506 individual donors donated ₹153,328 crores (19.6379% of the total donations) donated to the parties.
BJP has received a bigger pie of corporate donations as the party has received ₹548,808 crores from 2068 corporate sector donations while 2876 individual donors have donated ₹65,774 crores to the party.
On the other hand, the Congress party has received a total of ₹54,567 crores from 170 corporate sector donations and ₹40,892 crores from 1085 individual donors.